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Clare Copley, Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Central Lancashire

Euro 2024 in a super election year: how the Olympic Stadium is putting Germany’s past front and centre

The Olympiastadion in Berlin. Martijn Mureau/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Germany is hosting the Uefa Euro 2024 men’s football tournament right in the middle of what has been called the country’s “super election year”. People are voting at local, state and European levels, amid renewed contests over Germany’s relationship with its Nazi past.

The European elections have seen a noted rise in right-wing populism across the bloc. The long shadow of national socialism, however, means that far-right gains in Germany inevitably attract more attention.

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